Like a misunderstood salvation and other poems
By: Aimé Césaire ; translated from the French and with an introduction by Annette Smith and Dominic Thomas
Contributors: Smith, Annette (Annette J.); Thomas, Dominic Richard David
Series: AGM collection
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780810128965
Work titles: Poems
Description: Translations of 53 poems from the beginning and end of Césaire's career, including the 31 poems omitted from "Aimé Césaire: the collected poetry," published in 1983.
Notes: "Originally published in French as Aime Cesaire: La poesie in 1994, 2006 by Editions du Seuil."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Solar throat slashed (poems deleted); title: Lynch 1; title: Devourer; title: Rain; title: Secret society; title: Night crossing; title: Transmutation; title: Dwelling 1; title: The sun's stab in the back of unsuspecting cities; title: While in the heat naked monks come down from the Himalayas; title: Indecent behavior; title: Laissez-passer; title: Solid; title: Femme and flame; title: Compliments of history; title: A few miles from the surface; title: Scalp; title: Apotheosis; title: Undoing and redoing the sun; title: To the serpent; title: Torture; title: Pennon; title: Refinement of a mummy; title: Idyll; title: Password; title: The shape of things; title: Preliminary question; title: Tattooing eyes; title: Forfeit; title: To the night; title: Antipodal dwelling; title: Fresh out of a metamorphosis; title: Like a misunderstood salvation; title: Obsidian stele for Alioune Diop; title: Passage; title: References; title: Supreme mask; title: The virtue of fireflies; title: Rumination; title: Time to speak; title: Course; title: Dyali; title: Rapacious space; title: Phantasms; title: Laughable; title: Craters; title: Conventicles; title: Islands speak; title: Ruminatings of calderas; title: Through; title: The sleeping woman rock, or Beautiful like the exasperation of the secession; title: Favor from the trade winds (prose for the sun); title: For a fiftieth anniversary; title: Configurations.